When an update is made to the stable release, care must be taken to avoid changing system behavior or introducing new bugs. In order to do this, make as few changes as possible to fix the bug. Users and administrators rely on the exact behavior of a release once it is made, so any change that is made might break someone's system.
That said, you can always download pacakges from other releases from the mirrors or by visiting http://packages.debian.org/<packagename> - eg http://packages.debian.org/squirrelmail in this case.
If you'd like the latest stable package you can get it from the squirrelmail site (http://squirrelmail.org/download.php). There is a 1.2.10 package available there.
I tend to run stable systems, and use a feature called 'pinning' to tell apt to track unstable for certain packages, and stable for others. It involves creating an /etc/apt/preferences file which contains something like:
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
Then add the unstable distribution to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and do an apt-get upgrade. You will now be able to see newer versions, but will need to specify explicitly if you would prefer to track unstable for a given package. For example you may be on 1.2.6-1.2 and you may do:
apt-get install squirrelmail/unstable
to install 1.3.2+1.4.0rc1-1 (ie 1.4.0 RC1).
I should probably add that from 1.3.x I have taken a more 'hands off' approach to installing squirrelmail, in that I no longer automatically integrate it with apache. There are many other web servers and although many people use apache 1.3.x I would prefer not to recommend one over the others, especially at the expense of apache2. This means that you will need a working PHP installation and will need to adjust your web server configuration files to add the relevant aliases/virtual host directives.
Hope this helps (I have copied squirrelmail-users as I suspect others may find it useful too),
Sam
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Sam Johnston, Director
Australian Online Solutions
1300 132 809
Karsten Iwen wrote:
Hello Sam,
a short question for that I don't find an answer after searching the Debian Website.
When I use Woody stable on my server, will squirrelmail stay at version 1.2.6 until the next major Debian upgrade or will it be also be upgraded in the 1.2.x-tree?
I'm asking because I want to install some plugins which are only for SM >= 1.2.9 in the future and if it stays at 1.2.6, then I'm going to install the new SM "the normal way".
Thanks in advance for your answer and thank you for your work on Debian,
Karsten Iwen, Germany
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